Cathedrals chords

The Handsome Family

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The cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship 
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like the hand of God falling from the sky 
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A thousand stone-carved saints hang like icicles 
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but icicles don't take a thousand years to die 

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And everyone who's ever worked on this cathedral 
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or even spent a moment walking by 
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Everyone of us is swept away like breadcrumbs 
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What comfort does it bring, soaring towers left behind? 

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There's a fiberglass castle in Wisconsin 
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where kids race go-karts around a moat 
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once we went up there in December 
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when every waterslide and fudgeshop was closed 

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Hoping to feel love under the icicles 
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all we did was drink in an empty bar 
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but stumbling drunk we crawled back to our motel room 
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and I fell against you and felt your beating heart 

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Snow was slowly falling on the ice machine 
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and the moon shone hazy through the pines 
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but there were lounge chairs thrown into the empty pool 
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and a dog chained to a tree barking at the sky 
  
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